Prior to departing Joint Base Andrews, President Trump said to the press about his rally in El Paso, “We’re going there for a reason, we’re going there to keep our country safe … without a wall, it’s not going to work.”

Trump told reporters that 75,000 people signed up for his campaign rally tonight in El Paso, but the arena only holds 8,000.

Trump tells reporters that 75,000 people signed up for his campaign rally tonight in El Paso but the arena holds only 8,000.

]]>https://www.lonassome.bid/thousands-of-supporters-line-up-to-see-president-trump-in-el-paso/feed/027Texas May Build Its Own Border Wall With Reserve Fundshttps://www.lonassome.bid/texas-may-build-its-own-border-wall-with-reserve-funds/
https://www.lonassome.bid/texas-may-build-its-own-border-wall-with-reserve-funds/#respondSat, 02 Mar 2019 20:06:27 +0000https://www.lonassome.bid/?p=24The state of Texas is considering a shock move to secure our southern border. With reports of a deal made in Washington to fund 55 miles of new wall in the Rio Grande Valley, some Texas legislators seem unconvinced this will solve the problem.

They want to use the state’s reserve funds to build the wall. This would work, especially if the Texans are not happy with the final compromise bill coming from D.C.

From Breitbart: Two members of the Texas House of Representatives are preparing a bill that would provide $2.5 billion to fund a border wall.

The proposal would take the money from Texas’ “Rainy Day Fund.”

State Representatives Kyle Biedermann (R-Fredricksburg) and Briscoe Cain (R-Deer Park) are working on legislation to take $2.5 billion from the Texas Economic Stabilization Fund, also known as the Rain Day Fund, to provide funding to build a border wall along the Texas border with Mexico.

The proposal is still in the drafting phase, sources tell Breitbart News, but a bill could be filed soon.

A source in Rep. Biedermann’s office told Breitbart News on Tuesday that the bill is still in the planning stages but calls for the funds to be allocated to the Office of the Texas Governor, who would oversee the process of allocating funds and getting the wall built.

The funds would be used to design, test, construct, and install physical barriers, roads, and technology along the international land border between Texas and Mexico with a goal of preventing illegal border crossings in those areas, Biedermann told Breitbart News on Sunday.

Breitbart News reached out to the offices of Governor Greg Abbott, Lt. Governor Dan Patrick, House Speaker Dennis Bonnen and the Department of Homeland Security for a reaction to the proposal.

A spokesman for Lt. Governor Dan Patrick responded that Governor Patrick does not support using Rainy Day Funds to build a Texas border wall.

Instead, the Lt. Governor proposed that Texas invoice the federal government for the billions of dollars the state has already spent and use those receipts to pay for building a wall in Texas.

The 2017 Texas Legislature funded approximately $800 million for border security for the biennium, Breitbart News reported.

The legislature increased the spending from the $300 million authorized by the 2015 legislative session. Governor Greg Abbott proposed continuing the spending level during his State of the State address last week.

On the heels of an electric MAGA Rally last night in El Paso, TX, news is out today that Texas is woring on a plan to help Trump fund up to $2.5 billion of the border wall!

Specificially, it would be those sections in Texas, which makes sense.

Every bit helps!

And keep in mind, as President Trump reminded the crowd last night, construction on many sections of the Wall has already started or even been completed during Trump’s first two years!

So it’s no longer “BUILD The Wall” it’s “FINISH The Wall”.

And Texas is ready to help!

Breitbart:

Two Texas statehouse members will soon introduce legislation funding President Donald Trump’s planned border wall along the U.S. border with Mexico — specifically the Texas border — Breitbart News has learned.

State Reps. Kyle Biedermann and Briscoe Cain intend to introduce legislation soon that would fund $2.5 billion of wall construction along the Texas border with Mexico, appropriating it from the economic stabilization fund for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2019. The funds would be used, Biedermann tells Breitbart News, “to design, test, construct, and install physical barriers, roads, and technology along the international land border between the State of Texas and Mexico to prevent illegal crossings in all areas.”

Preference for the contracts and awarding of bids, Biedermann added, “for all phases of construction” would be given to Texans and Texas-owned entities.

While this idea is still novel and untested, given the fact that Republicans control the Texas statehouse and Texas state Senate and Texas’ governor Greg Abbott is a strong ally of President Trump’s, this type of plan could actually work in legally acquiring appropriations for a significant portion of what Trump intends to do along the border.

The plan comes as President Trump heads to El Paso, Texas, on Monday evening for a campaign rally in the border town where former Rep. Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke (D-TX) — the failed 2018 Democrat Senate candidate in Texas, who also is considering a potential 2020 presidential bid — is holding a counter-rally.

It also comes as negotiators on Capitol Hill in Washington, just five days before Friday’s deadline, have reportedly reached an impasse in negotiations over funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other government agencies totaling about a quarter of the federal government. Just a few weeks ago, the longest government shutdown in U.S. history — which started at the end of last year and dragged into this year lasting more than a month — ended after Trump agreed to reopen the government for three weeks to allow negotiators in Congress to attempt to reach a deal.

But the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives, run by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, is dead set against funding his wall in full, and Democrats and Republicans on the hill have not been able to reach an agreeable dollar number over this nearly completed three-week period. The government will shut down again Friday night if no agreement is reached.

Trump used his State of the Union Address last week to make the case for the wall, and he has also used an Oval Office address and the full bully pulpit power of the presidency to fight for extra border security measures including additional physical barriers. Part of the reason why he is heading to El Paso on Monday is to showcase how the border city has seen a decrease in unlawful crossings from Mexico since a barrier was built there.

Trump is expected to make the case for improving and repairing existing walls or barriers along the border and building new barriers wherever they are needed.

If Congress refuses President Trump’s request for a wall and does not provide funding for it, Trump can use other methods — like declaring a national emergency or turning to the states like Texas for help with an idea like Biedermann’s and Cain’s forthcoming plan — to get the wall built.

As President Trump is fond of saying recently, the Wall is getting build with or without the help of DemocRats in CONgress!

Whether that be by Emergency Declaration, or help from the States, or some other method, the Wall construction will indeed be completed!

Nancy has done everything possible to stall and stop Trump’s wall, and she was hoping an upcoming shutdown would be another opportunity to break him.

The deadline for Democrats to come to the table is quickly approaching, and it appears some Democrats are starting to crack.

Pelosi is going to be sorely disappointed when she hears what her Party is doing against her wishes.

From Politico:

Congressional negotiators announced an “agreement in principle” Monday night on a broad spending bill they hope will satisfy President Donald Trump’s demands for additional border barriers and avert another government shutdown at the end of this week.

The compromise represents a remarkable turnaround for negotiators tasked with staving off another shutdown, just hours after lawmakers on both sides said the talks were on the brink of falling apart.

“We reached an agreement in principle between us on all the homeland security and the other six bills,” said Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), a lead Republican negotiator.

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While the deal doesn’t have the $5 billion Trump requested for the wall, the spending bill includes, “$1.375 billion for physical barriers”, and “includes a total of 55 miles, which is just 9 miles shy of Trump’s last budget request.”

This is a huge win for Republicans, because Democrats are getting nothing in return for caving during these negotiations.

The liberals even dropped their ridiculous request to decrease the number of ICE detention beds.

But every border jumper needs to be deported. Even if they never commit a crime once they’re in the country, they still committed a crime by coming here without being processed.

The National Sheriff’s Association also strongly opposed the Democrat’s request. Rockingham Country Sheriff Sam Page stated that a reduction in detention beds, “would create a dangerous threat to our communities.”

This is because there are more border jumpers entering the country than the Democrats want to admit, and we need all the space we can to keep them detained while they await deportation.

Hopefully the wall gets built quickly and the need for detention beds decreases altogether because fewer border jumpers will be getting in.

UPDATE: Trump has reviewed the deal and apparently he’s “not happy.” We’ll have to wait and see if he accepts it and takes additional action.

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